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My Heart Belongs to Smashwords

When I started my journey to write my book, “Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships,” I thought that I would go with a traditional publisher. I even bought a book on writing a non-fiction book proposal and started to work on it. I got really stuck on writing sample chapters. “How in the world am I going to give an outline on something that I haven’t even written? I might as well write the chapter,” I thought to myself.

In a nonfiction Linkedin group someone mention Smashwords. I looked at their website and my gut knew this was the way to go. It was started because Mark Coker had trouble getting a publisher to pick up his book. He knew it was good and decided to do it himself and help other Indie authors. My, how it has grown!

I have nothing against Amazon or any other company that supports the Indie author. My books are there for the convenience of my readers. I have shopped at Amazon and Barnes & Nobles. The analogy I use for Amazon is they are like Walmart, while Smashwords is your local grocery store.

Here are some reasons I Love Smashwords:

Smashwords pays me 85% of my eBook price! While others pay anywhere from 35% to 70%, which means more food for my kitties and me.

I was very impressed when I was exploring the self-publishing option that Mark Coker, the owner of Smashwords, responded to other people’s blogs and articles. Maybe I missed it, but I have never seen that from any of the CEOs of the other eBook companies.

They distribute and format eBooks to other outlets (with the exceptions of Amazon) if the author desires. I desire because I am only so techie.

They offer a ton of useful, how to information for the Indie author on their site.

I can send them an email and they get back to me very quickly. Other companies I can’t even find a contact address.

At Smashwords I can generate a coupon to offer for everyone, a special event, or to a client. I can’t do that with other eBook distributors.

And the number one reason is I feel valued and important there.

So please visit my Smashwords author page and read my interview aka another perk. While you are there check out some of the authors I left reviews for. In fact investigate the whole site.

A message from Merlin aka The Bruiser and Rhiannon – We need more treats, so it would be PURRfect if you bought our human slave’s eBooks from Smashwords!